Consolas Font Pack

Here is Microsoft’s Consolas Font Pack for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 or 2008 released 2008-04-23.

The Microsoft Consolas Font Family is a set of highly legible fonts designed for ClearType. It is intended for use in programming environments and other circumstances where a monospaced font is specified. This installation package will set the default font for Visual Studio to Consolas.

setup.exe

Version number 1.0

Microsoft Typography – Windows 95 font smoother

Font smoothing works by adding intermediate colored pixels to the corners, curves and diagonals of characters in order to make them appear smoother and less jagged than they would otherwise. Now you [while using Windows 95] can make full use of the benefits of this technology, making text easier to read and more pleasant to look at, without having to purchase the Plus! Pack.

w95gray.exe

Microsoft Typography – Font Properties Editor

Provides access to text entries stored within TrueType and OpenType fonts.

fpeditr.exe

The editor gives type designers access to the following entries:

• designer – the type designer or designers
• designer link – the designer’s Web site or e-mail address
• type foundry – the company responsible for marketing the font
• foundry link – the company’s Web site or e-mail address
• description – background information on the font, the people who created it, advice on its use
• license – the license field should contain in plain language the restrictions placed on the use of this font.
• license link – a link to a licensing FAQ or an e-mail contact for licensing questions
• Vendor ID – a unique four letter code that identifies the font foundry
• Embedding – embedding permissions may be made more restrictive

Microsoft Typography – Web Embedding Fonts Tool (WEFT)

The Web Embedding Fonts Tool (WEFT) lets Web authors create ‘font objects’ that are linked to their Web pages so when viewed through the browser, pages are displayed in the style contained in the font object.

WEFTIII2b1.exe

Microsoft Typography – Internal tools

These tools were designed for use at Microsoft, and are unsupported externally. Microsoft makes no claims and holds no liability regarding the external use of these tools. These tools are copyrighted and redistributionis restricted.

Among them are:

TTFdump – Using TTFDump, you can dump specific tables and data for specific glyphs.

SBIT32 – SBIT32 is a 32-bit console tool that embeds bitmap data into existing TrueType font files.

CacheTT – The NT Console/Windows 95 DOS application CacheTT is a utility to enable the modification of TrueType and TrueType Open files. Modifications include creation/modification of one or more of the tables VDMX, hdmx and LTSH by calculating and caching values obtained from the Rasterizer. The resulting font is a complete and correct font.

FastFont – This program reorders a TrueType file for faster execution. It does this by placing all of the small, frequently used tables at the beginning of the font file, allowing the font to be loaded with fewer page faults.

FontTools.exe